my point was he didn't care enough -- >> i bet -- >> i want to go -- >> -- about conversations he had with the president and so on. i happen to think john boehner is -- deserves more credit than he's getting. >> i like boehner, too, but i think he's overwhelmed by the right. we grew up in a country where there was clifford case from new jersey, hugh scott in pennsylvania, schweiker from pennsylvania and weicker from connecticut and ed brook from massachusetts and up and down the -- all these republicans from the northeast. they're blown away. the only person left i think is susan collins now. so what's wrong? what happened to the republican party of the northeast? the people watching tv right now, by the way. >> we have to be a party that focuses on the issues that bind us together, and they're not the social issues. a national party has got to give a member of congress or the senate the ability to represent their constituency, and a party that denies them that opportunity, they're not going to get elected. >> chris, you can't overstate the problem the republican party has with women